Top 472 Poetry Quotes

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.